He was suffering from the loss of an illusion.

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

Thirstily he set it to his lips, and as its cool refreshment began to soothe his throat, he thanked Heaven that in a world of much evil there was still so good a thing as ale.

Regret of neglected opportunity is the worst hell that a living soul can inhabit.

I am very poor - for a know nothing, understand nothing. It is not a calamitous condition until it is realized.

Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish.

...it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.

Truth is so often disconcerting.

To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. You must change man, not systems.

Only he who is without anything is without enemies.

There remained the sea, which is free to all, and particularly alluring to those who feel themselves at war with humanity.

The ultimate way to reduce stress is find the cause and melt it away with love.

If prayer fails I am in a greater darkness yet, not knowing whether I have presumed too much or believed too little.

It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.

Marriage is going to be that happy state in which we get all of the nurturance and care and love and empathy and even good advice that we didn't receive from our families.

I think the downside of the Internet is that speaking-or writing-has become the point in and of itself.

Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea.

India is the one area of the sub-continent where we haven't won since I have been involved with England

In the book of Colossians, it talks about that because of what Christ did, we are pure. We are without judgment on ourselves. And only through him can we do something like this

We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.

How weightless/ words are when nothing will do.